How will Sony and Microsoft counter the Switch?

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robzo100 said:

Hiku said:

Whether the Switch will be a succeess or not is still very much a question. Let alone if it starts anything that can be considered an era.

If the Switch becomes mega successful, they may do something to immitate that formula. If not, they'll likely do nothing.

You may be right. However, that would be unprecedented. This would be essentially the first generation in a loooong time, where the Big 3 are not all releasing "new" consoles together in-sync for a holiday season. Historically, both artistically and economically, it's always been a big trio of an event with a ton of mutual and recipricol sales that end up benefiting the entire industry as a whole.

If Nintendo essentially goes it alone, for the first time in a long time(NES?), then in many ways you could argue that Sony and Microsoft are taking a big risk by letting potential customers all be monopolized by one company. For that reason alone I feel like the the other two companies are already planning "replicas" for April-2017 in case things go really well for Nintendo. Otherwise they'll be rushing like mad to play catch-up. You see where I'm coming from?

You think the two companies who have put out new consoles in the last 3 years, and have/are putting out iterations of those consoles in this next year, are suddenly going to R&D and push out a hybrid system to match an UNPROVEN Nintendo concept within a month of its release?

With your OP I thought you were a little off base.  Now you are pushing the needle towards remarkably delusional.